DJ Brother

I went to Escobar last night because my brother was doing his first bar/club DJ gig.

It was a little quiet (maybe a half the number of people it would need to feel "alive"), apparently the owner doesnt feel compelled to advertise for a thursday night crowd. The place has been open for years on fridays, and does really well for turnout. Its a nice place, has lasers / spotlight things / fog machine. Its a long narrow joint, maybe 50 m by 20. The central area is occupied by a wooden dance floor, flanked on one long side by a large, continous, bench couch with a few small tables and backless chair/footrests. The other side of the dance floor is the bar. The Dj stand is at one narrow end, and the other end is a sort of corridor to the entrance lined to one side with seating booths.

There are alot of mirrors and the place has a high ceiling, making it a fairly open and pleasent interior. Also meaning while i was there (although it wasnt packed) it didnt get hot, humid and unpleasant in summer like other places do (*cough* new guernica *cough*).

Anway, my bro started mixing some tracks about 10-11 then relenquished to the main DJ and some other guy she was trying out that night, then he did from 11:30-1 as a duo with the normal DJ.

I thought it was really good. The music was very bass heavy, as expected for dance music, my brother felt he hadnt brought enough mainstream tracks to mix in his collection, but the normal DJ had alot.

I got told I dance like a spastic, which is usual. I chatted with some of the others who were there, mostly friends of the three DJ's, although there were also a Mother advertising group who were giving out free mother, and free poleriods of the people who were there. My brothers girlfriend chatted to some guys who turned out to be male strippers, and she got their cards for a hens night she is organising later in the year. I chatted to the main DJ's gf, who it turns out is a main organiser of Sexpo. She had some interesting stories :p.

My bro did noticably stuff up two or three times with his mixing, and you could tell he knew it too. But it was mostly amazing (not too bad, only a couple of noticeable stuffups over several hours of mixing). I was extremely impressed, i havent the creativity or confidence to try something as cool as remixing tracks successfully. And he knew his way around the decks really well, just standing there hitting buttons, twisting diles, slidding the volume nobs like a pro. I couldnt even really tell how what he was doing was related to the music, but it seemed to work. Its a very esoteric skill.

Anyway, it was really cool, and he got asked back next week. The main DJ said they had a bit more advertising out for next thursday night, so hopefully there will be more of a crowd, it will be cool.

Im deffinitely going again next week.